Dr. Tammy Seneca retired after 32 years building what the WBR superintendent calls one of the best technology departments in Louisiana — including keeping the district clean when cyberattacks hit other parishes. The school board also set millage rates for 2025.
June 18, 2025
American Idol Season 23 runner-up John Foster Benoit performed for municipal officials at an LMA District H meeting hosted by the Town of Addis — singing "Country Roads" and "How Great Thou Art" while Addis Mayor David Toups serves as District H Vice President.
June 18, 2025
Highway 1 carries 44,700 vehicles a day on infrastructure designed for far less. A resident brought unsynchronized signal complaints to the Parish Council the same night the old Intracoastal Bridge permanently closed — and the $126M relief project is still years away.
June 17, 2025
St. Francis Hall in Brusly is the last surviving structure from Sardine Point — a Louisiana river community that vanished in 1932 when the Army Corps of Engineers built a new levee. Now families have weeks to save it from demolition.
June 14, 2025
A black bear was spotted near Maple Street and Erwin Avenue in Erwinville Friday, prompting WBRSO to advise residents to stay indoors. Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries took over the response by 5:15 p.m.
June 13, 2025
Port Allen honored two city employees with 62 combined years of service — then rejected an IT contract that's been in place for 20 years over a $750 monthly increase. The council also advanced a police tax renewal for November's ballot.
June 12, 2025
An Addis resident's letter to The Advocate calling out WBR Parish for reactive governance landed in the middle of WBR Independent's own documented pattern of the same thing — from flood rescues to emergency water alerts issued only after the crisis had already started.
June 11, 2025
Port Allen's first mayor's town hall tackled a $15 million sewer plant that will take five years to build, blight ordinances residents didn't know existed, and a city that's running out of land to grow on.
June 11, 2025
The existing LA 1 northbound bridge over the Intracoastal Canal in Port Allen is closing permanently Thursday as demolition begins. Drivers will use the new bridge exclusively starting this week.
June 10, 2025
